Mod Police And Rof Security

EDM number 706 in 1995-96, proposed by Frank Cook on 02/04/1996.

That this House notes that 45 Ministry of Defence police officers are scheduled to be removed from the Royal Ordnance factories at Chorley, Nottingham and Radway Green and replaced by unarmed security guards; notes that the effect of this move will be to increase the cost to ROF of security provision by more than 20 per cent.; notes that the Nottingham factory alone contains at any one time several thousand firearms i n its small arms facility and that this stock of weapons could prove an irresistible lure to lawbreakers; believes that in the current climate of concern about gun club security and the heightened prospect of terrorist action such downgrading of provision is to say the least imprudent; and, in consequence, urges the Secretary of State for Defence to institute an investigation to review the advisability of such ill considered proposals.

This motion has been signed by a total of 29 MPs.